Trust Grows

Hey guys. All right, so here we are. It’s another Monday message and I wanted to give you a quote I got. This is another one of mine. Trust grows where truth is normal. You might think of our core values and the word transparency. One of our core values. Trust will grow where truth is normal.

You build loyalty, you build trust, you build all those things where truth is spoken. Now, sometimes truth can be hard and sometimes truth can be difficult, but people will appreciate it because you speak it. Now, they won’t always appreciate it in the moment. There are people in my life that I have spoken truth to in love, in a polite way, and in a kind way, but in a matterof act way, and they have went away.

Sometimes mad, sometimes frustrated, sometimes a little angry. That has happened too. But I’ve had many of those people come back to me and it’s because I spoke truth that they came back and they realized that I did so out of kindness and love and respect for them. So again, that trust will grow between people when truth becomes a normal thing in their lives.

It takes a minute sometimes for people. Now, I’m not saying just be brutally honest and mean spirited to other people. You got to speak with tact and with love and with respect. But again, trust will grow in that soil when you’re speaking the truth and it’s a normal thing that you don’t lie to people, that you’re honest with people, that even if you make a mistake, you own it and you take advantage of the relationship to the point where you say, “I’m willing to bear my soul to you because I trust you, because I want you to know me.”

And that’s not an easy thing to do in many relationships. But as time goes on where trust is a normal thing and the truth is a normal thing, then trust will grow in that place. So as we’re moving into the new year, as you think about it, speak the truth, speak it in love.

So be respectful, be tactful about how you do it. But be truthful in what you do and that transparency, that honesty will build trust with you and those around you. All right, God bless you guys. Have a wonderful week. Hey, we’re right here at the end. So Wednesday is the last day of the year. God bless you guys. Talk to you later.

Bye. See you.